Show #6501 2012-12-17 (taped 2012-09-05) Regular

Contestants

Theresa Anderson — a clothing sales associate from Valrico, Florida

Susan Jann — an operations coordinator from Bristol, Pennsylvania

Alistair Bell — a computer chip designer from Berlin, Massachusetts (whose 3-day cash winnings total $56,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Alistair $2,600 $3,600 $15,600 $15,600
2nd place: $2,000
$16,800
22 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD)
Susan $1,200 $6,600 $17,800 $22,800
New champion: $22,800
$17,400
23 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Theresa $200 $2,400 $6,000 $6,000
3rd place: $1,000
$6,000
8 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT GO AHEAD... MAKE MY CAR CHILDREN'S LITERATURE MOVIE MISSING LINKS MATH FUN FROM B TO SHINING B
$200 [1]
Duh--a candy cane cocktail gets its signature flavor from this kind of schnapps
peppermint
Theresa
$200 [18]
You can bug out in this automaker's Jetta
Volkswagen
Alistair
$200 [26]
Sally & her brother were looking out the window on a rainy day when they saw him standing on a doormat
the Cat in the Hat
Susan
$200 [16]
Scent of a ____Under the Influence
Woman
Susan
$200 [3]
If the 4 people at your standup show each bring 2 friends to your next gig, you'll have this size audience
12
Alistair
$200 [8]
Found after dive, cherry or stink, it's da this!
the bomb
Susan
$400 [2]
A Merry Irishman pairs Kahlua with Tullamore Dew, an Irish type of this
whiskey
Alistair
$400 [19]
Be an Alfa dog & hop in its 2-seat 8c Spider
Alfa Romeo
Susan
$400 [27]
"Mowgli's Brothers" is the first story in this 1894 collection
The Jungle Book
Susan
$400 [17]
Sling ____ Runner
Blade
Theresa
$400 [4]
It's the response to the classic riddle "Why is 6 afraid of 7?"
Because 7 8 9
Alistair
$400 [9]
It's a globular underground part of a flower
a bulb
Alistair
$600 [13]
The vegan version of this holiday classic uses soy milk, extra firm silken tofu & of course rum & nutmeg
eggnog
Susan
$600 [23]
This Korean brand has "Soul"
Kia
Susan
$600 [30]
Bugs Meany is often the villain in the stories about this young detective who was introduced in 1963
Encyclopedia Brown
Susan
$600 [20]
Lovers and Other ____ on a Train
Strangers
Susan
$600 [5]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) Take a circle whose diameter is 1 foot & mark the bottom; once the wheel has made one revolution, you have a measurement, in feet, of this ratio
pi
Alistair
$600 [10]
That's the spot! it's a therapeutic manipulation of the dorsal muscles
a backrub
Alistair
$800 [14]
Named for a red plant, this cocktail has triple sec, champagne & cranberry juice
poinsettia
Susan
$800 [24]
A convertible 2013 Phantom from this maker can fetch more than $470,000
Rolls-Royce
Susan
$800 [29]
This Hans Christian Andersen maiden was born in a tulip; a polished walnut shell served as her cradle
Thumbelina
Theresa
$800 [21]
Jack ____/Nixon
Frost
Alistair Susan
$800 [6]
It's the sum of the 4 numbers in the center column of buttons on a standard touch-tone phone
15
Alistair
$800 [11]
A brief advertisement, perhaps for your buddy's novel
a blurb
Alistair
$1,000 [15]
Angels we have heard on high suggest an angel's delight, made with this spirit, such as Bombay
gin
Susan
$1,000 [25]
The Roadster, an electric car from this new company named for an inventor, goes 0 to 60 in 3.7 seconds
Tesla
Susan
$1,000 [28]
This mouse created by Lucy Cousins for preschoolers has such friends as Cyril the Squirrel & Eddie the Elephant
Maisy the Mouse
$1,000 [22]
Wait Until ____ Victory
Dark
Susan Theresa
DD $1,600 [7]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) The Venn diagram here contains three sets: A, B & C, but, there's another set that includes all possible things that's called this
the universal set
Alistair
$1,000 [12]
Grover Norquist said he wanted to reduce government to the size where he could "drown it in" this household feature
a bathtub
Susan

Double Jeopardy! Round

NEW JERSEY "MAIN" MASS GEORGE, UHHH... MRS. HIPPIE THE OTHER 45 STATES
$400 [4]
In 2011 a Florida Major League Baseball team unveiled a New Jersey & this new alliterative name
the Miami Marlins
Alistair
$400 [12]
When a book's copyright expires, it enters this, & anyone can publish it without liability
public domain
Theresa
$400 [13]
Mass is one of the Catholic church's 7 of these
sacraments
Alistair
$400 [6]
I've gone blank...he was born Eric Blair & wrote that book about barnyard animals that overthrow their human masters
George Orwell
Alistair
$400 [26]
It seems like every othergarmentin Mrs. Hippie's is colored with this knotted fabric technique
tie dye
Susan
$400 [1]
The name of this state honors "The Sun King"
Louisiana
Alistair Theresa
$800 [5]
Hoping to improve times, the 2012 U.S. Olympic track team wore new uniforms with these on them, like on golf balls
dimples
Susan Theresa
$800 [18]
Term for a very large computer that was the hub of a system for many users in the 1960s; today we call it a server
a mainframe
Susan
$800 [14]
The hymn "Glory to God in the Highest" also has this Latin name
"Gloria in excelsis"
Alistair
$800 [22]
In 1819 Shelley called him "an old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king"--I know the name, but I forget the number
George III
Theresa
$800 [27]
A "bad trip" is an uncomfortable LSD experience, like the one Mrs. Hippie had at this August 1969 N.Y. music festival
Woodstock
Alistair
$800 [2]
Susana Martinez, this state's first female governor, is also the first Latina governor of a U.S. state
New Mexico
Alistair
DD $1,600 [7]
Nike redesigned the NFL uniforms for 2012, with the biggest revamp for this team that's closest to Nike headquarters
the Seattle Seahawks
Alistair
$1,200 [19]
Also a nautical term, it describes one who acts as a chief support
a mainstay
$1,200 [15]
Either the Nicene or Apostles' one of these texts is recited
the Creed
Alistair
$1,200 [23]
Oh, drat, him... chose his own famous middle name, taught agriculture at Tuskegee in 1896
George Washington Carver
Susan
$1,200 [28]
Mrs. Hippie wears these shoes from a company around since the '70s--the 1770s
Birkenstocks
Susan
$1,200 [3]
Check out the groovy corner design of this state's flag; the yellow & black stripes honor the Calvert family
Maryland
Susan
$1,600 [8]
The 1912-13 throwbackjerseysworn in 2009 didn't help this team add to its 24 Stanley Cups
the (Montreal) Canadiens
Susan
$1,600 [20]
This haunt of pirates was the Caribbean Sea & adjacent waters; Tom Sawyer was "The Black Avenger" of it
the Spanish Main
Alistair
$1,600 [16]
Mass is obligatory on December 8, the feast of this doctrine of Mary's purity
Immaculate Conception
Susan
DD $2,000 [24]
You know, he was a 1901 VMI grad, spearheaded the big European recovery program 46 years later
(George) Marshall
Susan
$1,600 [10]
This basically rectangular state is surrounded by Idaho, Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Colorado & Utah
Wyoming
Alistair
$2,000 [9]
This team that once featured a dribbling dinosaur on its jersey became the NBA's first to debut a camouflage one
the Toronto Raptors
$2,000 [21]
Merion & Villanova are 2 of the towns in this Philadelphia area named for a route of the Pennsylvania railroad
the Main Line
Theresa
$2,000 [17]
Now again kosher (wrong word?), the Latin-language tridentine mass is named for this 16th century council
the Council of Trent
Alistair
$2,000 [25]
It'll come to me... the algebra or logic named for him is central to the design of computer circuits
George Boole
$2,000 [11]
Wenatchee, in this state's Chelan County, bills itself as "apple capital of the world"
Washington
Susan

Final Jeopardy!

19th CENTURY INVENTIONS

Thoreau noted in 1854, it "resounds at every post. it is a harp with one string--the first strain from the American lyre"

a telegraph

Theresa "What is the telegram" — wagered $0
Alistair "What is a cotton gin?" — wagered $0
Susan "What is a telegraph?" — wagered $5,000

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